[Development] The sorry state of the Qt6 cross compile experience

Dominik Holland dominik.holland at qt.io
Wed Feb 24 16:32:57 CET 2021


Am 2/24/21 um 4:25 PM schrieb Joerg Bornemann:
> On 2/24/21 12:56 PM, Bogdan Vatra wrote:
>
>> Let me give you another non-android example:
>> You want to create a standalone SDK for linux armhf using yocto. You'll
>> generate the SDK with everything including Qt for host and for
>> target, the sdk
>> is a huge auto extract archive which can be shared with everyone. Can
>> this
>> archive contain only the Qt for the target? Nope because there is no
>> way to
>> know if and where the Qt for host is installed on everyone computers,
>> you also
>> need to know where the Qt for host it is in order to fix the
>> hardcoded paths.
>
Mhh, yocto builds both the host Qt and the target Qt and the SDK archive
will contain both Qt version. But this was already the case for Qt5 as
well. I don't think anything has changed here.

Dominik


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